About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Global Procurement & Supply Chain Governance Department 
The Global Procurement & Supply Chain Governance team supports procurement, source-to-pay processes, supply chain performance, supplier management, working capital visibility, and enterprise decision-making. The team partners closely with Finance, Operations, IT/Data, and procurement stakeholders to improve data quality, build trusted analytics, and translate business needs into measurable operational improvements. 

Position Overview

This role is based remotely in the United States. 

Vantage is seeking a Director, Procurement Intelligence & Predictive Analytics, Global to lead the strategy, development, and adoption of advanced analytics capabilities across Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance. This role will drive enterprise-wide data-driven decision making by transforming complex global data into actionable insights that improve operational performance, optimize working capital, mitigate risk, enhance supplier outcomes, and support executive and strategic business decisions.

The Director will define and execute the global roadmap for procurement analytics, predictive and prescriptive modeling, machine learning, and decision intelligence solutions across Demand-to-Delivery, Source-to-Pay, supplier performance, spend analytics, inventory and asset management, and cash flow forecasting. Working closely with senior leaders across Procurement, Finance and Technology and Business Functions, this role establishes scalable analytics capabilities, data governance standards, and reporting frameworks that enable informed decision-making and deliver measurable business value worldwide.

Essential Job Functions

• Own and lead the global strategy, roadmap, and governance for procurement analytics, data science, and decision intelligence capabilities that enhance procurement performance, supplier management, sourcing effectiveness, contract compliance, and spend optimization. 

• Serve as a strategic advisor to Procurement, Finance, Technology and executive leadership by translating complex procurement, supplier, inventory, and supply chain data into actionable insights, business strategies, and measurable outcomes. 

• Lead the design and deployment of predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities, leveraging machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, forecasting, and decision intelligence to drive enterprise value using both internal and external data sources.

• Oversee the development and implementation of analytical models supporting demand forecasting, supplier risk management, capacity planning, inventory optimization, lead-time prediction, anomaly detection, and cash flow forecasting. 

• Establish and champion executive dashboards, supplier scorecards, KPI frameworks, and reporting standards that provide visibility into procurement, supply chain, fulfillment, and project performance across the organization. 

• Drive enterprise-wide working capital and cash flow optimization initiatives through advanced analytics of purchasing activity, payment timing, inventory investments, accruals, supplier terms, and capital project spending. 

• Partner with senior leaders across Finance, Procurement, Operations, Technology, and business functions to improve forecasting accuracy, scenario planning, capital allocation, operational efficiency, and supplier performance. 

• Lead transformation initiatives across Source-to-Pay processes by identifying strategic opportunities for automation, compliance improvement, process optimization, and operational excellence. 

• Advance procurement analytics capabilities that increase guided buying adoption, spend visibility, purchase order compliance, invoice matching accuracy, goods receipt management, and overall procurement effectiveness. 

• Establish and maintain global procurement data governance standards, including data quality frameworks, master data management, metadata, lineage, controls, and stewardship practices. 

• Drive a culture of data-driven decision making by promoting analytics adoption, enhancing self-service capabilities, and ensuring analytical insights are embedded into business operations and strategic planning. 

•  Influence enterprise data and analytics strategy throug